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blue ; a white spot at the base ; a whitish squamose spot near the base of interno-median 

 area : secondaries with cream-coloured basal third : body shot with steel-blue ; head, collar, 

 and inner border of teguhe orange ; abdomen with a lateral series of white spots, anus orange. 

 Wings below black : primaries with a white streak near the base of interno-median area ; two 

 whitish spots on the radial interspaces * : secondaries with the basal half, excepting at costa, 

 white : body below orange, legs black, venter with a row of triangular black spots on each 

 side ; the white lateral spots of the upper surface are also visible. Expanse of wings 3 inches 

 4 lines. 



Darjiling (Lidderdale). 



M. atrata is most nearly allied to M. nigrescens, Moore. 



Macrobrochis gigas. (Plate LXXXVII. fig. 4.) 

 <S . Lithosia gigas, Walker, Cat. Lep. Ret. ii. p. 494. n. 1 (1854). 



Black-brown : primaries with greenish reflections, particularly towards the base ; a white 

 dot at the base ; an elongated cream-coloured patch on the interno-median interspace towards 

 the base ; a costal streak, a large spot within the extremity of the cell and a larger one below 

 it creamy white ; eight elongated discal patches or streaks, the first extremely narrow, quite 

 linear, the second almost linear, divided in the middle, the remainder larger ; a space between 

 the fourth and fifth, the seventh very long and divided by a brown bar : secondaries with the 

 basal half white, veins and external half black-brown ; a few very indistinct whitish streaks 

 between the veins towards the apex : body above almost as in the preceding species. Wings 

 below dark brown ; primaries with seven large oval spots across the disk, otherwise as above : 

 secondaries with the basal half excepting the veins and costa, a subcostal streak almost to 

 apex, and five decreasing spots from the latter to the first median interspace white : body 

 below orange ; legs dark brown, shot with steel-blue ; venter banded with steel-blue and with 

 a lateral series of white spots on a black ground. Expanse of wings 2 inches 10 lines. 



India. 



The type described by Walker is placed last in his enumeration of the specimens which 

 formerly represented this species in the collection ; unfortunately no locality is given, but it 

 is probable, from its close resemblance to M. interstitialis (which may even be a large variety 

 of it), that it comes from the N.E. Himalayas. 



Macrobrochis albicans. (Plate LXXXVII. fig. 5.) 



? . Primaries above purplish black, shot towards the base with dark green ; a number of 

 white markings almost as in the preceding species, but considerably broader, snow-white : 

 secondaries snow-white, the apex, costal and outer margins, veins beyond the middle, and 



* In some examples these are white and are present on both surfaces. 



